With an eye toward winning an NBA title, Steve Nash joined the Los Angeles Lakers on a sign-and-trade deal worth $27 million over three years.

Nash, now in the second year of his deal, has played only 10 games this season, and he's only suited up in 60 total over the past two years. Still, the Lakers do not feel that they made a mistake in signing Nash, who they expected to work in concert with Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard to bring another title.

“No regrets,” Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said on Thursday, according to ESPNLosAngeles.com (via ProBasketballTalk). “You have to recognize where you are as a franchise and we felt we had a two-year window, maybe three, to go for a championship and that’s what we did.

“Looking back on it, which nobody can do, that’s a different story. But at the time, we knew exactly what we were doing.”

Reality has set in on Nash as well. That was obvious in a Grantland documentary on the Lakers point guard's return from nerve irritation. Nash wondered aloud whether he would make a full recovery and considered the very real possibility that retirement is around the corner.

Nash, who is in the early stages of a return, is due to make $9.3 million this year and $9.7 million next season. Because Nash has played 10 games this season and does not see his career as over, a medical retirement that would take his deal off the books is no longer a possibility.